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from heat waves to weather headlines made news. michio kaku from the university of new york city. good morning. good to have you with us. you look at the weather patterns over the past year and they all look wild, extreme. what's driving that. >> when you look outside, you say the weather's on steroid bus there's no single ah-ha moment where you can say it's an aha moment. when most proviesd cold air from canada, watch out. that's what's driving hurricanes droughts and even forest fires. this could go down as one of the hottest years ever reported in the history of science. the last ten years goes down as the hottest ten years recorded in the history of science and that means more wacky weather, more moisture, more energy. global warming is a misnomer. it should be called global swing. >> which means the world doesn't end tomorrow. it's just every little event is worse or inkre meantycrementally worse than before. >> you look at all the glaciers are receding. the ice caps has diminished by 50% just in the last 50 years. an area the size of united states in terms of ice disappeared
from heat waves to weather headlines made news. michio kaku from the university of new york city. good morning. good to have you with us. you look at the weather patterns over the past year and they all look wild, extreme. what's driving that. >> when you look outside, you say the weather's on steroid bus there's no single ah-ha moment where you can say it's an aha moment. when most proviesd cold air from canada, watch out. that's what's driving hurricanes droughts and even forest fires....
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new york city had them first in 1998. red light cameras are to prevent the very dangerous t-bone crashes where you have the front of one vehicle running into the side of another. we are in favor in concept of red light cameras, but they have to be done to certain engineering criteria. >> reporter: by federal law, they have to have time to get through a yellow light, three second at the typical 30-mile-per-hour intersection. back in october, engineers at aaa new york discovered a problem. at some city intersections with the cameras, the yellow lights were almost a half second too fast. red light violators who later had to pay up now feel set up. >> when the amber lights are too short, people are getting cited we think unfairly. if you're timing them too short it becomes a revenue enhancement tool and it erodes support for a red light camera program. >> reporter: brian hughes paid a $50 fine after a camera caught him running a red light in manhattan in 2010. >> a $50 ticket might not seem like a lot of money to some people,
new york city had them first in 1998. red light cameras are to prevent the very dangerous t-bone crashes where you have the front of one vehicle running into the side of another. we are in favor in concept of red light cameras, but they have to be done to certain engineering criteria. >> reporter: by federal law, they have to have time to get through a yellow light, three second at the typical 30-mile-per-hour intersection. back in october, engineers at aaa new york discovered a problem....
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but the new york city health department found people exposed to debris and dust at ground zero did not have a higher cancer rate. >>> britain's guardian reports on deadly attacks in pakistan targeting u.n. workers giving out polio vaccinations. two workers were killed today and one is in critical condition. it is not clear who is behind the attacks but the taliban opposes the vaccination campaign claiming that it's aimed at sterilizing muslims. >>> "usa today" says the housing market is building momentum thanks to job growth, the construction of new single family homes will be up 25% this year. it's predicted to jump another 35% next year. >>> and the san jose mercury news says facebook founder mark zuckerberg is donating nearly $500 million in stock to a local nonprofit foundation. on his facebook page zuckerberg referred to a promise to donate more than half of his wealth to charity. he is part of the so-called >>> our weather is all about the cold clear temperatures outside right now. clear skies and temperatures still below freezing in a lot of spots. we have a freeze warning for t
but the new york city health department found people exposed to debris and dust at ground zero did not have a higher cancer rate. >>> britain's guardian reports on deadly attacks in pakistan targeting u.n. workers giving out polio vaccinations. two workers were killed today and one is in critical condition. it is not clear who is behind the attacks but the taliban opposes the vaccination campaign claiming that it's aimed at sterilizing muslims. >>> "usa today" says...
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. >> he was stolen from a street in new york city and now thanks to good samaritans the dog is back home. >> whoa! >>> there goes santa! look at that. >> this sad, an alabama fan, a hat, and tickets to the bcs title game. >> we're going to the game! ♪ >>> welcome to cbs this morning. we begin with this powerful storm system that caused a string of tornadoes that damaged buildings and knocked out hour in places like louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. it dropped heavy snow in parts of texas, oklahoma, and arkansas. >> it's blamed for three deaths and we'll check the forecast but we begin in hard hit mobile alabama where blake brown of our cbs affiliate is watching the tornado damage blake, good morning. >>> good morning this is the scene here in mobile, we have big trees down powerlines down, roof damage and it is just hours after the storm ripped through the city. >> volatile conditions as tornadoes toucheddown around mobile. >> i was screams and hollaring, and i was just scared to death. >> we ran into the cooler, got all of the employees in the cooler, and it came right over us. >>
. >> he was stolen from a street in new york city and now thanks to good samaritans the dog is back home. >> whoa! >>> there goes santa! look at that. >> this sad, an alabama fan, a hat, and tickets to the bcs title game. >> we're going to the game! ♪ >>> welcome to cbs this morning. we begin with this powerful storm system that caused a string of tornadoes that damaged buildings and knocked out hour in places like louisiana, mississippi, and alabama....
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. >> mayor michael bloomberg announced new york will hold a contest to redesign the city's pay phones. now, a brand new -- >> "eye-opener" at 8:00 is brought to you by the aarp. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. this morning prince william's wife catherine is back home in london after three days in the hospital. >> the pregnant duchess of cambridge was being treated for an acute form of morning sickness. mark phillips is outside the hospital in london. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. normally a royal baby gets this kind of attention when it's born. this one only had to be conceived. the duchess did leave the hospital today after three days inside treated for acute morning sickness, as she and prince william left, they were asked, she was asked how she felt. she said, much better. yelling across the street to reporters who had gathered here in the cold for that period of time. the couple heading back to their london residence at kensington palace will the duchess will stay for a period of rest we're told. it's very unlikely that
. >> mayor michael bloomberg announced new york will hold a contest to redesign the city's pay phones. now, a brand new -- >> "eye-opener" at 8:00 is brought to you by the aarp. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. this morning prince william's wife catherine is back home in london after three days in the hospital. >> the pregnant duchess of cambridge was being treated for an acute form of morning sickness. mark phillips is outside the...